Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.
Complete the form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give.
Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement
Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
Differentiated Instruction
Incorporating differentiated instruction in the classroom will help engage all students. It will provide challenges for students who are excelling and practice and time for students who are struggling
Differentiated instruction will ensure that students are learning the same content and are being suffiencently challenged
RIBT 2.4/4.1
2.
Increased content knowledge
An increased level of content knowledge will allow me to incorporate new and exciting ideas to the class room. It will help me to make real world connections for my students and ensure that they are receiving the most uptodate information
Well educated teachers ensure that the school performs at a high level of performance by bring in accurate and current knowledge to its students.
RIBT 2.3
3.
Include real world connections
Including real world connection in my lessons might give students a reason to engage in the material.
Making connections will help to create a bridge between the students educational experience at the school and the real world
RIBT 1.1, 4.2
4.
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
One of my professional development goals is to join a professional organization such as RISTA and/or NSTA and attend at least one professional workshop per year. The workshop should be something that would help me to get ideas on new and inventive ways to create lessons or give me new perspective on a current trend or topic in sicence.
According to the Salt report on Exter-West Greenwich Junior High, there was a concern that the students weren't being challenged enough. This could be due to a variety of reasons, but for my personal experience, lack of content knowledge and resources creates lesson plans that are stagnet. Increasing my knowledge of pedagogy or content within my subject area would only help to create interesting and inspiring lessons. This goal will help to give me a resource to become a better teacher by giving me access to new information that I might be able to bring back to my students.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
Guided Professional Development
In an ever changing society, it is important to stay current with the latest content knowledge for your students. One way in which I plan to do this is by attending one professional development workshop or other content related class per year. Professional development workshop should be relevant to the content that I will be teaching. This will allow me stay current with new information, gather resources to bring back to my students and also possibly make connections for the students. Making connections to the real world will help to engage the students and make the lesson more relevant for them.
Individually Guided Professional Development
As a teacher I will make an effort to stay on top of current events and research. I would like to participate in research either through the Audubon Society or through URI. Although this might not be possible during the school year, summer research opportunities might become available. If research opportunities through these organizations are not possible, the staying on top of the current research locally and nationally through journal articles or videos might be possible. Fine tuning my research skills will only help me to bring these skills into the classroom.
Print your PD plan to PDF
Post your PD Plan to True Outcomes
Return to True Outcomes to evaluate a peer's plan the following week.
EDC 484 IPlan Peer Evaluation
Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
One of my professional development goals is to join a professional organization such as RISTA and/or NSTA and attend at least one professional workshop per year. The workshop should be something that would help me to get ideas on new and inventive ways to create lessons or give me new perspective on a current trend or topic in sicence.
According to the Salt report on Exter-West Greenwich Junior High, there was a concern that the students weren't being challenged enough. This could be due to a variety of reasons, but for my personal experience, lack of content knowledge and resources creates lesson plans that are stagnet. Increasing my knowledge of pedagogy or content within my subject area would only help to create interesting and inspiring lessons. This goal will help to give me a resource to become a better teacher by giving me access to new information that I might be able to bring back to my students.
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
Guided Professional Development
In an ever changing society, it is important to stay current with the latest content knowledge for your students. One way in which I plan to do this is by attending one professional development workshop or other content related class per year. Professional development workshop should be relevant to the content that I will be teaching. This will allow me stay current with new information, gather resources to bring back to my students and also possibly make connections for the students. Making connections to the real world will help to engage the students and make the lesson more relevant for them.Individually Guided Professional Development
As a teacher I will make an effort to stay on top of current events and research. I would like to participate in research either through the Audubon Society or through URI. Although this might not be possible during the school year, summer research opportunities might become available. If research opportunities through these organizations are not possible, the staying on top of the current research locally and nationally through journal articles or videos might be possible. Fine tuning my research skills will only help me to bring these skills into the classroom.